Judge Davis was Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit Elected in 1848  Elected 3 times  14 counties  Treat was elected Supm Judge.  Circuit Judge  Elected last time June 1861  Appointed Supm US Judge in Oct 1862  Lincoln went to all the Courts. Judge Davis in Time held his Court about 6 mo.: the first time he held Circuit Court was in 1849 

Never was a Man of gushing feelings  Eminently just  felt for the Poor  was not a man of [strong?]  Yielding except in [corrections?] of [illegible]

Lincoln was conscentious  See Early life in Menard  see Abolitionism  in 1856  was for Taylor over Clay  . He had this Kind of Faith  namely  He believed in the People  though that then Like 2d thought his would eventually prove successful  No man can be a man with out this faith  Purple practiced in the Circu and as a general rule asked nor granted favors  would give Lincoln what he wanted  Had no faith in the Christian sense of that term  Had faith in laws  principles  causes & Effects  Philosophy. He had scelf-relying power  in this  He had no faith in any mans judgment  Could not Absorb  could suck in  drink in memory, but Must Know by investigation  as it were by Experiment  had no faculty or organizing power: hence a child Could Conduct the Simple & technical rules  the means & the mode of getting at Justice better than L. The Law has its own rules & a student could get at them better than L  Sometimes Lincoln studied things, if he could not get the rubbish of a case removed. &c &c. He had no invention or organizing ability &c  no Admr. Ability 

Patterson murder case [1] in Champaign  Davis  Lincoln  Sweat  Lincoln was on the wrong side  wanted to compromise  Sweat said no  L was so conscious that he did not do much good  but that Sweat did  that he proposed to give the whole fee to Sweat [2]